Windows USB Forensics: Tracking External Device Connections
Forty-Seven USB Drives Walk Into a Network A financial services client called us on a Friday afternoon. Their DLP solution flagged 14 GB of data copied to a removable device,…
Ransomware Encryption Analysis: Attack Mechanics on Windows
Forty-Seven Alerts at 2 AM and One of Them Was Real A managed services client called our SOC at 2:14 AM on a Tuesday. Their file server was throwing access…
Using Autoruns to Audit Every Windows Autostart Location
A Backdoor Hiding in Plain Sight During a quarterly security review for a client running a 200-seat Windows environment, we found a DLL registered under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\Appinit_Dlls that had been…
Forensic Triage on Windows: Rapid Evidence Collection
The Clock Is Already Running Your SIEM flags a suspicious PowerShell execution on a domain controller at 11:43 PM. The endpoint detection tool confirms process injection consistent with MITRE ATT&CK…
Digital Forensics for Incident Response: Field Guide
Three weeks into a ransomware investigation at a mid-size logistics firm, the IR team handed me what they called a “forensic copy” of the infected server. It had been rebooted…
Cybersecurity Naming Conventions: A Complete IT Guide
Cybersecurity naming conventions are standardized rules for labeling digital assets – including user accounts, firewall rules, log files, and security policies. Organizations that adopt consistent naming standards reduce misconfiguration risk,…
Windows Digital Forensics Guide for IT Security Teams
When a security incident occurs on a Windows system, the clock starts ticking immediately. Every action taken – or not taken – can determine whether critical evidence is preserved or…